书名：The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories狂人日记及其他故事
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1060L
作者：Nikolai Gogol
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451418562
商品尺寸：10.6 x1.7x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：256 （以实物为准）

果戈里的The Diary of a Madman《狂人日记》艺术构思独特，出现在读者面前的是狂人和狗的通讯、几篇日记，形式荒诞。小说主人公是一个微不足道、安分守己的小公务员，受阶级社会重重压迫，处处被人侮辱蹂躏，后来被逼发疯。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，包括The Nosen “The Carriage,” “The Overcoat” “Taras Bulba”等其他几个故事。由Regina Barreca作序，Gerald Charles Dickens后记，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

“The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced.”—Vladimir Nabokov
“Behind his laughter you feel the unseen tears.”—Alexander Pushkin

Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol’s works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of “The Diary of a Madman,” followed by the wonderfully surrealistic “The Nose,” in which the title character embarks on some unlikely activities when separated from its owner’s face. In “The Carriage,” a pompous landowner gets his comeuppance when he attempts to impress a general. Rounding out the collection are the woefully comic tale of a clerk’s acquisition of “The Overcoat” and the celebrated novella “Taras Bulba” about the Ukrainian mythic hero said to have led a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles.
Translated by Priscilla Meyer and Andrew R. McAndrew
With a New Introductionand an Afterword by Priscilla Meyer

果戈理（1809～1852），俄国19世纪前半叶优秀的讽刺作家、讽刺文学流派的开拓者、批判现实主义文学的奠基人之一，他出生于乌克兰一个地主家庭，中学毕业后在十二月党人革命运动的影响下到了彼得堡，当过小公务员，薪俸微薄，生活拮据，这使他亲身体验了“小人物”的悲哀，也目睹了官僚们的荒淫无耻、贪赃枉法、腐败堕落。1831年辞职，专门从事文学创作。1831～1832年他的处女作短篇小说集《狄康卡近乡夜话》问世，书中赞扬乌克兰人民的勤劳、智慧和善良，揭露封建主义和金钱势力的罪恶。1835年，中篇小说集《米尔戈罗德》和《彼得堡的故事》的出版给他带来声誉。《米尔戈罗德》收入四篇小说，其中《塔拉斯·布尔巴》是历史题材，塑造了哥萨克英雄布尔巴的形象，歌颂了民族解放斗争和人民爱国主义精神。《彼得堡的故事》取材当时现实生活，展示了生活在专制制度下“小人物”的悲剧，尤以《狂人日记》《鼻子》和《外套》突出。

The son of a small landowner,Nikolai Gogol(1809–52) was educated at the Niezhin gymnasium, where he started a magazine and acted in student theatricals. In 1828, he went to St. Petersburg, obtained a government clerkship, and devoted himself to writing. In 1831–32, he published two volumes ofEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, a collection of stories based on Ukrainian folklore that was enthusiastically received. He next planned to write a history of Russia in the Middle Ages. The work never materialized, but the planning of it served to win him a chair of history at the University of St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, he published “Taras Bulba” and a number of short stories, including “The Overcoat.” On April 19, 1836, his famous comedyThe Inspector Generalwas produced. The play stirred up controversy and critics hailed its author as the head of the Naturalist school. Gogol spent the next twelve years abroad, living mainly in Rome. During his voluntary exile, he completedDead Souls, a panorama of Russian life. Published in 1842, the book was an immediate success. The next ten years Gogol spent writing and rewriting a sequel that was never to see publication.

Andrew R. MacAndrewis the translator of numerous books, includingNotes from UndergroundandThe Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gogol’sThe Inspector General, andSelected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Priscilla Meyeris Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University, She published the first monograph on Vladimir Nabokov’sPale Fire,Find What the Sailor Has Hidden, and edited Andrei Bitov’s collected stories,Life in Windy Weather. She is coeditor of collections on Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov. Her most recent book isHow the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy.

THE CHIMES
Chapter 1 First Quarter
Chapter 2 The Second Quarter
Chapter 3 Third Quarter
Chapter 4 Fourth Quarter
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
Chapter 1 Chirp the First
Chapter 2 Chirp the Second
Chapter 3 Chirp the Third
A CHRISTMAS DINNER
A CHRISTMAS TREE
WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER
THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS—IN THREE CHAPTERS
Chapter 1 In The Old City of Rochester
Chapter 2 The Story of Richard Doubledick
Chapter 3 The Road